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IFA is Europe's largest consumer electronics show, and this year was no different. IFA 2025 featured some of the most eye-catching innovations ever, so much so that it's hard to narrow down the list of amazing products.
However, at a time when the tech world is saturated with artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, I found it refreshing that the best products I've seen don't hinge on AI. As I walked through the halls of Messe Berlin, these were the best products I saw and would definitely watch for in the near future.
1. Philips Hue MotionAware via Bridge Pro
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One of the most extraordinary things I've seen at IFA is Philips Hue giving existing smart lights the ability to become motion detectors for your smart home. Philips Hue just announced the new Hue Bridge Pro, a new smart hub for its Hue smart lights that has a five times faster processor and can handle up to 150 Philips Hue lights in your home.
Also: Philips Hue Bridge Pro just made it easy to add motion sensing to your old smart lights
The new Bridge Pro also supports up to four MotionAware setups, so you can set a group of Hue lights to work together as a motion detector. Seeing this in action, I was impressed at how a group of Philips Hue lights can be set up together, along with the Bridge Pro, to detect motion by recognizing changes in the wireless signals around them.
This kind of technology sounds futuristic, yet Philips Hue managed to make it happen and make it available for the vast majority of its existing smart lights, excluding the first-generation and portable lights.
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